Vibrating pill may give dieters a feeling of fullness, study suggests
Research carried out on pigs showed they ate almost 40% less food after ingesting the capsuleDieters everywhere know that, no matter how inventive a chef you may be, nothing leaves you buzzing like sugary or fatty food.Now science might have the answer: a vibrating pill, swallowed before eating, that creates feelings of fullness.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - December 22, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Nicola Davis Science Correspondent Tags: Science Biology Animals Diets and dieting Pharmaceuticals industry Health Obesity Source Type: news

Reindeer can multitask and chew while they sleep, study shows
The animals combine sleeping and digesting, researchers found after extracting reindeer brain dataIf your ceaseless feasting at Christmas leaves you exhausted, it may be worth taking inspiration from reindeer: research suggests the animals can sleep while chewing.During the summer months, reindeer spend most of their time munching foliage – an important activity given food can be scarce in the winter. However, a study suggests one way they balance their need to digest with the need to sleep is by multitasking.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - December 22, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Nicola Davis Science Correspondent Tags: Biology Science Norway Europe Source Type: news

Steady rise in number of Covid-19 cases: Government not considering travel curbs, mask mandates for now
While public health experts say that Covid-19 cases will increase in winters, they, however, stressed that there is no need to get another vaccine shot as the potential to cause severe illness from the latest variant of coronavirus is less than the previous variants. "Our best information is that the current Coronavirus vaccines, even those based on the ancestral strain such as those administered in India, should continue to work on JN.1. The disease severity associated with the sub variant JN.1 is expected to be comparable to the other circulating variants, not worse," said Gautam Menon, professor of physics and biology a...
Source: The Economic Times - December 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Darwin in Patagonia: tracing the naturalist ’s route around the foot of South America
Darwin spent more than half of the five years of the Beagle expedition in the most southerly region of Argentina, where his legacy is still vividFar from the recognisable image of the white-bearded father of modern biology, when Charles Darwin embarked on his expedition into the unknown, he was a young man who had twice disappointed his family.A model of HMS Beagle, the navy ship on which Darwin sailed to South America in 1831Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - December 21, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Marcio Pimenta, with additional reporting by Caio Barretto Briso Tags: Global development Argentina Charles Darwin Americas Science World news Evolution Biology Chile Fossils Animals Source Type: news

We navigate deep uncertainty with community
Looking at the ongoing climate crisis, a recent article at The New York Times pointed out that we’re living in a time of systemic uncertainty: In June, the Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine published a paper cautioning that the world at large was facing “a psychological condition of ‘systemic…#mediaparty #collaboratory #lionpublishers #sembramedia #reutersinstitute #selfinvestigation #latinamerica #theatreforchange #axmina #newsproductalliance (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Flowers ‘giving up’ on scarce insects and evolving to self-pollinate, say scientists
French wild pansies are producing smaller flowers and less nectar than 20 to 30 years ago in ‘startling’ act of evolution, study showsFlowers are “giving up on” pollinators and evolving to be less attractive to them as insect numbers decline, researchers have said.Astudy has found the flowers of field pansies growing near Paris are 10% smaller and produce 20% less nectar than flowers growing in the same fields 20 to 30 years ago. They are also less frequently visited by insects.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - December 20, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Phoebe Weston Tags: Wild flowers Plants Insects Environment Wildlife Science Evolution Biology Bees Source Type: news

ACLU of Montana challenges law defining the word 'sex' in state code as only male or female
The ACLU of Montana has filed a lawsuit challenging a new law that defines the word “sex” throughout state code as only male or female, based on a person’s biology at birth (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - December 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news

Metabolic features of treatment-refractory major depressive disorder with suicidal ideation - Pan LA, Naviaux JC, Wang L, Li K, Monk JM, Lingampelly SS, Segreti AM, Bloom K, Vockley J, Tarnopolsky MA, Finegold DN, Peters DG, Naviaux RK.
Peripheral blood metabolomics was used to gain chemical insight into the biology of treatment-refractory Major Depressive Disorder with suicidal ideation, and to identify individualized differences for personalized care. The study cohort consisted of 99 pa... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

3D elastography performs well in automated breast volume scanning
3D elastography can be applied to an automated breast volume scanner to analyze in vivo strain images, according to a study published December 15 in Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology.  Researchers led by Gijs Hendriks from Radboud University Medical Center found that strain elastography could differentiate between malignant and benign breast lesions when applied to the automated scanner, imaging these in three dimensions. “The results indicate that maximal principal strain ratios were significantly increased in malignant lesions compared with benign lesions including fibro-adenoma,” Hendriks and colleagues wrote. ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - December 19, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Ultrasound Womens Imaging Source Type: news

Chimps can recognise peers decades later – especially if they got on well
Bonobos and chimps demonstrate longest long-term memory ever found in nonhuman animals, scientists sayWhether it is a sea of faces at a school reunion or distant family at a wedding, our ability to remember people we met years ago can come in handy. Now it seems our evolutionary cousins have a similar skill.Researchers have foundbonobos and chimpanzees can recall peers they spent time with in the past, even if they have been separated for decades. What is more, this recognition appears to be influenced by whether they got on well with each other – or not.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - December 18, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Nicola Davis Science correspondent Tags: Memory Science Animals Biology World news Source Type: news

Using NCBI Data and Tools for Your Research Project
Are you a biology student working on a research project? NCBI offers free access to a wide variety of resources and tools to help you find and download data for your project.   How and why do you use our resources? Check out the example below: Your professor has assigned you a research project looking at … Continue reading Using NCBI Data and Tools for Your Research Project → (Source: NCBI Insights)
Source: NCBI Insights - December 18, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NCBI Staff Tags: What's New Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) Comparative Genome Viewer (CGV) Gene Genome Data Viewer (GDV) iCn3D NCBI Datasets NCBI Taxonomy PubMed Central (PMC) Source Type: news

Biology, Anatomy, and Finance? More Med Students Want Business Degrees Too
(MedPage Today) -- Jasen Gundersen, MD, MBA, never considered a career in business when he entered medical school nearly 3 decades ago to become a rural primary care doctor. But today he isn't working in rural America, and he doesn't do primary... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - December 17, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Researchers protest end of NSF grants to program using data from its $1 billion ecology network
U.S. ecologists are protesting a decision by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to abruptly end funding for studies that rely on its one-of-a-kind network of 81 ecological research sites that debuted just 4 years ago. They believe the move undermines the emerging field of macrosystems biology and limits the potential of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). And after getting the cold shoulder from the research directorate that made the decision, scientists are taking the unusual step of pleading with NSF’s director to reverse the decision. “NSF is jeopardizing its investment in NEON,” leaders o...
Source: ScienceNOW - December 15, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news

News at a glance: AI rules for Europe, vaccines for Africa, and a union for NIH early-career researchers
HEALTH EQUITY A billion-dollar boost for vaccinemaking in Africa Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, has committed up to $1 billion to bolster Africa’s ability to sustainably produce its own doses of lifesaving vaccines. Manufacturers based in Africa produce only 1% of the vaccine doses used on the continent. Last week, Gavi announced that with money left over from the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access Facility—an effort to provide an equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines—it would create the African Vaccine Manufacturing Accelerator (AVMA) to focus on preventing 11 priority infectious diseases. As ...
Source: ScienceNOW - December 14, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news

Science ’s 2023 Breakthrough of the Year: Weight loss drugs with a real shot at fighting obesity
Show / hide sections navigation 2023 Breakthrough of the Year Runners-up Breakdowns Video Obesity plays out as a private struggle and a public health crisis. In the United States, about 70% of adults are affected by excess weight, and in Europe that number is more than half. The stigma against fat can be crushing; its risks, life-threatening. Defined as a body mass index of at least 30, obesity is thought to power type 2 diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, fatty liver disease, and certain cancers. Yet drug treatments...
Source: ScienceNOW - December 14, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news